Failing Memory? Things I Can’t Remember

Begins here a list of memory lapses, items I reach for mentally before drawing a blank. I am not counting things I forget because I was incapacitated. (E.g., stuff I buy on Amazon when drunk or sleepwalking.) I put an asterisk after anything I actually went and Googled, or otherwise hunted around for.

Stuff I Forget

Name of resort town near Rimini, where I was for WMA in Sept. 2007. (Riccione*)

11. Swedish actor who was in The Seventh Seal and Hannah and Her Sisters? (Max von Sydow*)

12. The Negro-Thai golfer, big in the 90s, on skids since? (Tiger Woods)

13. Simone Veil, Simone Weil, Edith Stein: who is who? (Veil’s the one who just died, Weil is the crazy philosophe who worked herself to death, Stein the one who became a nun and died in a concentration camp.*)

14. Pop novelist and Thatcherite pol who got convicted of some obscure crime years ago? (Jeffrey Archer…couldn’t come up with his name on a day in May till I shook my brain a little.)

15. Name of that Scottish c&w girl singer with the 2008 hit about the black oak tree?
(KT Tunstall — Big Black Horse and the Cherry Tree, actually, and the song is older, 2004. (This is about the third time in six months I was stumped, had to look up an e-mail I sent someone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq8hiZPqj_U )

16. That quasi-3D kind of photo or illustration, like lenticular, but not lenticular? (Oh holograph. Took me a few seconds.)

Stuff I Forget: Addendum, August 19, 2017

17. The Alsatian bistro across the street from the Café de Flore. (Brasserie Lipp. It’s mentioned in Hemingway and a Maurice Chevalier song but I gave up after ten seconds and Googled.*)

18. Jewish lawyer and Harvard LS professor who was always on TV and who defended Claus von Bulow. (Alan Dershowitz. Really drew a blank on this one. You can search for, Whom did Ron Silver play in Reversal of Fortune, but that works only if you know the other pieces.*)

19. Word for when someone is older than one ought to be. (Superannuated.)

27. Name of Jewish communists who disappeared into Czecho, late 40s, while searching for a relative. (???)

Stuff I Forget: Addendum, April 2, 2018

28. Floyd guy caught in Crystal Cave in 1925. (Floyd Collins*)

29. Harvard math teacher and comedy songster. (Tom Lehrer)

30. What is this familiar tune:dih-DAHH-dih-dih-dah
dih-DAHH-dih-dih-dah
dih-DAHH-dih-dih-dah
dah-DEE!Thought maybe G&S, but no: Kander & Ebb. Had to whistle it into Vocaroo before I got it. (“Tomorrow Belongs to Me”)

31. Who played Don Barzini in The Godfather? He was in a Rat Pack movie too. (Richard Conte)